January transfer window

ITT-Pat

Dacourt having a medical at Fulham, I think thats an excellent signing

eagle eye

Especially for Lucky Lloyd

Sky Sports News understands Fulham are in talks to bring veteran striker Brian McBride back to the club on loan.
McBride left Craven Cottage at the end of last season in order to return to Major League Soccer with Chicago Fire.
He had scored 40 goals in 153 appearances for Fulham after joining the club five years ago from Columbus Crew.
The 36-year-old was a firm favourite with the West London club and could now return before Monday's transfer deadline.
Fulham boss Roy Hodgson has been looking to improve his attacking options during the window and has already missed out on Manchester City's Felipe Caicedo.
Talks are taking place between Fulham, McBride and the MLS in an attempt to push through a loan move before the window shuts.
Meanwhile, Inter Milan midfielder Olivier Dacourt is undergoing a medical at Fulham ahead of a loan deal until the end of the seasonskysports.com revealed on Saturday evening that the Cottagers had lined up a move for Dacourt, who has been out of favour with the Serie A champions this season.

JPA

This window is so old school.

LuckyLloyd

eagle eye wrote: »

Especially for Lucky Lloyd

:):):):):):):):):):):)

Headshot

some more transfers have gone through

pompey have signed striker Theofanis Gekas from Bayern Leverkusen on loan
(who)

spurs are in talks with liverpool over Keane

sunderland have signed Tal Ben-Haim on loan

thusspakeblixa

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote: »

pompey have signed striker Theofanis Gekas from Bayern Leverkusen on loan

I always rated Gekas in the Bundesliga, but I don't think he'll do well at all at Pompey.
Flop in waiting.

String

Is the window closed at 12am tonight? I heard 5pm somewhere but im unsure. Going to be very exciting morning if its 5pm

Xavi6

Tis 5pm

keane2097

Xavi6 wrote: »

Tis 5pm

Expecting any last day excitement from City Xavi?

Dave!

There's ne'er a dull moment at the City of Manchester Stadium

everdead.ie

Spurs increased there bid for keane according to skysports 'sources'

Mitch Connor

Alex gives son Darren a dig out with the loan of a defender - United youngster James Chester has joined Peterborough on loan for a month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/p/peterborough_united/7864630.stm

Kinda surprised to be honest, we are not great for defensive cover right now, and the reserves have virtually no one, wonder who will be drafted in from the U18's to play for the reserves, probably Gill as the other defernders are 15 i think.... anyway, way off track there .

Xavi6

keane2097 wrote: »

Expecting any last day excitement from City Xavi?

Dave! wrote: »

There's ne'er a dull moment at the City of Manchester Stadium

'SSN understands' that there will be no last minute transfer activity for us so expect 4 players to be paraded later today.

Spud83

I love the last day madness, hopefully it will all keep me entertained for a long Monday in work.

smackbunnybaby

THE MADNESS CONTINUES!!

1115: Sheffield Wednesday have signed Michael Gray from Wolves on a free transfer until the end of the season.

Xavi6

Angelo Basinas possibly on his way to Pompey

MIN2511

It's a shame that things didn't work out for Keane in Liverpool, till this day i don't understand why Rafa never liked him. Wtf did he buy him then?
Also Arshavin would have been a good signing for Arsenal, pity they can't afford the 15mil price tag.
All eyes are on Citeh today

Gillie

MIN2511 wrote: »

It's a shame that things didn't work out for Keane in Liverpool, till this day i don't understand why Rafa never liked him. Wtf did he buy him then?

Apparently he didn't!
Parry or someone else did...

mike65

Arshavin deal collapsed according to Guardian. Well might be collasping (headline not very accurate)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/feb/02/arsenal-arshavin-transfer-breakdown

Mitch Connor

I reckon if Keane had been signed against Rafa's wishes, Rafa would have resigned. I think Rafa did want him, just he didn't get what he expected in the end.

Xavi6

MIN2511 wrote: »

All eyes are on Citeh today

Why? We've already signed 4 players in the window. I can't really see there being anyone else.

The Keane scenario is far more eye catching than anything we have going on, as is the Arshavin one.

Apparently an extension will be put on the deadline by a few hours cause of the shíte weather from what SSN are saying. Cant see Keane not going now.

Mitch Connor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/h/hamilton_academical/7864095.stm

Accies sign Republic youth pair

Hamilton Academical have signed midfielder John Sullivan and full-back Padraic Ormsby from Eircom League outfit Bohemians.

The Republic of Ireland youth internationals are primarily seen as additions to the Scottish Premier League outfit's Under-19 squad.

Both players have signed contracts until May 2010.

Scottish-born midfielder James McCarthy is also an Ireland youth cap and is already a first-team regular at 18.

Xavi6

Lol transfer window extension so 'Arry gets his man

Necronomicon

God I love transfer deadline day There are always some gems, like this:

1120: "Zinedine Zidane is sensationally coming out of retirement to join Bolton until the end of the season."

The weather is apparently cocking up a lot of transfers.

Remember last season when the ghost of Riquelme was spotted numerous times around Goodison Park?

Trampas

Bent on his way to Blackburn.

Must mean cruz to man City

therecklessone

Xavi6 wrote: »

Lol transfer window extension so 'Arry gets his man

:rolleyes:

Necronomicon

Trampas wrote: »

Bent on his way to Blackburn.

Must mean cruz to man City

Could be more to do with Keane's proposed move back to Spurs. SSN reporting that the Santa Cruz deal has gone quiet, and that City aren't going to make any new offers.

everdead.ie

Keane having a medical at the moment at the lane

Fratton Fred

The league turned a blind eye to allow defoe to be re-signed within 12 months of signing for pompey, are they going to do the same thing again.

I suppose there's one rule for everyone and another for trendy London teams.

I'm sure spurs fans are nice, reasonable people, but I really really really hope you are watching championship football next season. I don't care if we go down, as long as |Tottenham do as well.:mad:

Necronomicon

SSN reporting that Inter will allow Quaresma go to Spurs, if one of Bentley/Jenas is involved in the deal.

mayordenis

I think you can only be registered with 2 teams in any 12 month period which would be a loophole for returning to your old club.

Spud83

The rule was put in place to stop abuse of the loan system. Not to stop transfers.

Anyway I don't see why Spurs shouldn't be allowed resign Keane once all parties are happy.

therecklessone

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The league turned a blind eye to allow defoe to be re-signed within 12 months of signing for pompey, are they going to do the same thing again.

I suppose there's one rule for everyone and another for trendy London teams.

The rule was brought in to stop teams circumventing the restriction on loan signings by buying/selling a player from/to another club then reversing the deal in the next transfer window.

The signings of Defoe and possibly Keane cannot even begin to be described as organised enough to fit that description. Embarrassing perhaps, but devious? Not a chance.

The provision is there for the PL to allow this dispensation to all clubs not just trendy London teams.

And while we're on the subject of blind eyes being turned, remind us again how many days after the deadline had passed last January Pompey completed the sale of Benjani to City...

Fratton Fred

mayordenis wrote: »

I think you can only be registered with 2 teams in any 12 month period which would be a loophole for returning to your old club.

you are not allowed to sign for a club within 12 months of leaving them.

alanmurphy83 wrote: »

The rule was put in place to stop abuse of the loan system. Not to stop transfers.

Anyway I don't see why Spurs shouldn't be allowed resign Keane once all parties are happy.

what, stop abuse like taking a player on loan, realising he doesn't fit into your team and returning him to his original club, but doing it as a transfer rather than a loan so the agents and player make lots of money out of it?

there was a thread the other week about how power is going from the players back to the clubs. I think Robbie Keane and Jermaine defoe have demonstrated nicely that players can throw tantrums and get their own way whenever it suits them

Melion

Maybe its just a Harry thing so

Fratton Fred

therecklessone wrote: »

And while we're on the subject of blind eyes being turned, remind us again how many days after the deadline had passed last January Pompey completed the sale of Benjani to City...

I wish we'd kept him and not signed the midget tbh.

Xavi6

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I wish we'd kept him and not signed the midget tbh.

I wish you'd kept him too (apart from that goal on his debut obviously)

Jo is at Everton's training ground apparently.

Unearthly

So what was Bentez on about that keane is staying?

Xavi6

Apparently Jurgen Klinsmann, Ricky Villa and Gazza are also doing medicals at White Hart Lane along with Keane :pac:

JPA

Unearthly wrote: »

So what was Bentez on about that keane is staying?

Good luck deciphering the things Benitez says.

therecklessone

Unearthly wrote: »

So what was Bentez on about that keane is staying?

He said "I hope so" when asked was he staying.

He was hardly going to say "nah, I'm driving him down to London right now" when both clubs were still negotiating over the transfer, was he?

Redknapp gets caned for saying too much, Rafa for not saying enough...

JPA

Xavi6 wrote: »

Apparently Jurgen Klinsmann, Ricky Villa and Gazza are also doing medicals at White Hart Lane along with Keane :pac:

Anything brewing at Eastlands from your forums or anything?

Xavi6

JPA wrote: »

Anything brewing at Eastlands from your forums or anything?

Jo to Everton on loan.

Absolutely zilch coming in.

Also plenty of 'Hughes Out' threads to stifle the boredom.

Fratton Fred

Xavi6 wrote: »

Apparently Jurgen Klinsmann, Ricky Villa and Gazza are also doing medicals at White Hart Lane along with Keane :pac:

I'm wondering if Arry will take Lauren and Djimi Traore off our hands as well.

Seaneh

Saviola to City on loan is flying around the net at the moment...

Unearthly

therecklessone wrote: »

He said "I hope so" when asked was he staying.

He was hardly going to say "nah, I'm driving him down to London right now" when both clubs were still negotiating over the transfer, was he?

Redknapp gets caned for saying too much, Rafa for not saying enough...

looooool

I caned Benitez? stop having a laugh. Asked a question, which you answered, so pipe down with the caning talk

Xavi6

Seaneh wrote: »

Saviola to City on loan is flying around the net at the moment...

Really? Any links? Nothing on our forum so far.

JPA

Seaneh wrote: »

Saviola to City on loan is flying around the net at the moment...

That's the type of player they don't need. They need a big bastard up front.

Xavi6

Kasper Schmeichel wants out on loan now apparently. Sounds good.